Two bakers and a counter on Central Avenue.
Ostrem Bakery opened in 2019 in a former shoe repair shop at 2210 Central. We still bake everything in the room behind the counter, and you can watch from the window.
Hours and directions
Ostrem Bakery opened in 2019 in a former shoe repair shop at 2210 Central. We still bake everything in the room behind the counter, and you can watch from the window.
Hours and directions
Anders Ostrem
Bread · since 2019
Anders learned to bake from his grandmother in Duluth and spent six years on the bread team at a hotel downtown. He mixes every dough himself and is usually at the oven by four.
Leila Amari
Pastry · since 2021
Leila ran the pastry kitchen at a restaurant in St. Paul before she joined. She laminates the croissant dough by hand every afternoon and makes every cake to order.
2019
Anders opens with one deck oven, a country loaf and a baguette. Sold out by ten most days.
2021
Leila joins as a partner. Croissants, tarts and cakes come with her.
2023
A second oven, and a bread for each day of the week. The Saturday limpa starts a line.
Today
Four cafés, five mornings a week, and Sam at the counter keeping a limpa back for the regulars.
Flour
Stone-milled wheat, rye and spelt from a small mill in Northfield, an hour south.
Butter
Cultured butter from a dairy co-op in southern Minnesota, for every croissant and cake.
Fruit
Whatever is good at the Saturday market. That’s why the tarts change every week.